Suspected gang members wait on a truck after being presented to the media after being detained by the police under the charges of homicide and terrorism in San Salvador, El Salvador.
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Relatives of Josue David Penalba Rivera react as police secure a crime scene in San Salvador. Rivera was shot by suspected gang members after they told him to leave the taxi he was traveling in.
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Army soldiers interrogates a suspected gang member during a patrol operation after residents flee the Amaya Community, due to threats from suspected gang members, in San Salvador.
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A woman reacts as she touches the feet of her son's body, as the bodies of members of the Barrio 18 gang are carried out of a crime scene after a confrontation with the army, in the town of San Pedro Perulapan.
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Members of the Barrio 18 gang wait to be admitted upon their arrival to the San Francisco Gotera penitentiary. The Salvadoran government transferred 1,177 inmates, members of the Barrio 18 gang from Izalco jail to San Francisco Gotera in a effort to curb gang violence activity.
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A police investigator works at a crime scene where five suspected gang members were killed in the town of Chalchuapa. The five suspected gang members were killed by armed men after they were taken from their homes during the night, simulating a police raid and executed, according to local media.
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Red Cross volunteers help Claudia at the Red Cross in Apopa, on the outskirts of San Salvador. Claudia was raped and battered by alleged members of the Mara Salvatrucha street gang and then thrown into a ditch left for dead.
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Salvadoran police officers mourn during the funeral ceremony for their colleague Wendy Yamileth Alfaro Mena in Zacatecoluca. The police officer was killed by suspected members of the Barrio 18 gang and was the first policewoman to be killed by gangsters, according to local media.
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Relatives and friends carry the coffin of police officer Juan Carlos Siliezar during his funeral in San Salvador. Siliezar was killed in an attack on his security post at a courthouse in San Salvador by suspected gang members.
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A member of the 18th Street gang is presented to the media after being arrested, for threatening residents of San Valentin apartments, after a raid in the town of Mejicanos, on the outskirts of San Salvador.
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